About the Authors

My collection   My name is Chuck Starrett, some of you know me as beer-1 from ebay. I live in Florida and collect beer cans from Michigan. This can be a challenge at times. Why Michigan beer cans? I, like many other collectors, started collecting beer cans in the 1970’s. I was living in Royal Oak, Michigan at the time. Since I was in high school and didn't have much money, my goal was to get as many cans as I could. And I did, I had about 1500 cans. This was great, but most of them were common cans. Soon I ran out of room to display them, so I decided to specialize. Since I lived in Michigan, it was a natural for me to collect Michigan cans. In the early 1980’s, I packed up all my cans in boxes and moved them to Florida. They stayed in those boxes for about 15 years. Then I found Ebay. This was a turning point. The cans came out and I was hooked again. Well those common cans still weren’t worth much, but the nice Michigan cans I had, well let’s just say I wish I had sold all my common cans back then and gotten more Michigan cans!     Table of Contents

My collection   My name is Randy Karasek, and my story is similar to Chuck's. I began collecting soda cans in 1974 (living in Dowagiac, Michigan), working hard to complete sets of Royal Crown football/baseball. On a trip through Pennsylvania my parents brought home a six pack of Iron City Beer Pirates cans. While too young for the beer poured down the sink, those cans plus seeing an amazing beer can collection of a local collector, I was hooked. With "Beer Cans Unlimited", "Beer Cans Monthly", and membership to the old "Cans of the Month Club", soon my room was wall to wall, as well as the ceiling, covered with common beer and soda cans! Out of space, I decided to specialize in beer cans from my home state of Michigan. Well college came around, and my interest (or lack of time) in collecting faded. After graduating from UM in 1987, everything was packed in boxes and I moved to sunny California, waiting until that day when I would have both the time and shelf space to redisplay my collection. I never imagined it would take nearly 15 years before that day would come! However, once the cans were back on their shelves, I was hooked again, and looking forward to improving my collection of Michigan beer cans.     Table of Contents